The Data Processing Laboratory was established by Presidential Decree No. 174 (Government Gazette No. 63/10-4-1990) as a laboratory of the School of Sciences and Technology.

The Data Processing Laboratory of the School of Sciences and Technology, by decision No. 265/19-03-2009 of the regular session of the Senate of the University of Crete, assumed the central coordination of all computing and networking services of the University of Crete. These services will be provided by technical units operating in all educational, research, and administrative facilities of the University of Crete, both in Heraklion and Rethymno.

2009:
The Communications and Networks Center is reintegrated into the Data Processing Laboratory of the School of Sciences and Technology of the University of Crete by decision no. 265/19-03-2009 of the Senate.

2014:
In 2014, as part of the restructuring process of the University of Crete’s (UoC) organizational structure to meet new requirements and with a focus on the importance of information and communication technologies in the organization of services and administrative procedures, the Senate of the UoC, by its decision no. 323/20-02-2014, establishes the Center for IT Infrastructure and Services. This center is composed of six (6) departments/units: the Department of Educational Technologies, the Department of Administrative Information Systems and Management Economics, the Department of Information Management, the Department of Computing Infrastructure, the Department of Networks and Communications, and the Secretariat.
Based on the above, the Communications and Networks Center is succeeded by the Networks and Communications Department/Unit, which becomes part of the newly established Center for IT Infrastructure and Services of the UoC.